HUMMING-BIRD. 359 



89— YELLOW-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD. 



SIZE and length same as the last. Bill five-eighths of an inch, 

 dusky, strait; plumage in general pale cinnamon, beneath paler ; 

 chin and throat fine gilded yellow ; quills dusky brown. 



The two last from the drawings of General Davies. 



90— LEAST HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus minimus, Ind. Orn. i. 320. Lin. \. 193. Gm. Lin. u 500. Molin. Chil. 218. 



Id. Fr.Ed.226. Borowsk.u. 159. Klein, Stem. 23. t. 24. f. 1. 2. Spalowsk.il. 



t. 21. Gerin. iv. t. 402. 1. 

 Trochilus minutulus, Vieill. Am. ii. p. 73. 

 Mellisuga, Bris. iii. 695. t. 36. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 29. 

 Le plus petit Oiseau-mouche, Biif. vi. 11. pi. 1. PI. enl. 276. 1. Ois. dor. i. 113. 



pi. 64. 

 Guainumbi minor corpore toto cinereo, Raii, 83. 7. Jd. 7ma. Species, p. 87. 44. JFeV/. 



p. 167. 

 Der kleinste Kolibri, Schmid, Vog. p. 61. t. 44. 

 Least Humming-Bird, Gen.Syn.u. 788. Sloan. Jam. ii. 307. t. 264. 1. Brown. Jam. 



475. Will. {Engl. J 132. 7. Ediv. pi. 105. iVa*. itfwc. pi. 489. Shaw's Zool. 



viii. 355. 



HOWEVER small some of the foregoing may appear, they will 

 be far surpassed by the present, in respect to diminutiveness ; small 

 indeed, since it gives way, both in weight and dimensions, to more 

 than one species of bees ! Sir Hans Sloane observes, that it weighs 

 no more than 20 grains when fresh killed, and the total length only 

 one inch and a quarter. The bill is black, three lines and a half 

 in length ; the upper parts of the head and body of a greenish gilded 

 brown, in some lights appearing reddish ; the under parts greyish 



